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Christopher Skase

– The Sick Tycoon Essay, Research Paper


In the early 1980’s a young confident man


named Christopher Charles Skase became world famous by amassing a list


of assets including a multi-million dollar company called Quintex, the


channel 7 network, Mirage resorts and a number of extravagant houses across


the world.


Christopher Skase was born on the 18th


of September 1948 in Melbourne, Australia. He grew up in a rich family


going to Malvern and Caulfield Grammar Schools. He first started making


money as a stockbroker and then as a finance journalist. In 1975 he bought


a small Tasmanian based company called Quintex. Borrowing heavily the Company


expanded into resort developments including 5 Mirage resorts and the media


company, channel 7 network.


Buoyed by his success Skase began to represent


Australia’s entrepreneurs of the 80’s. Brash, extravagant and fearless.


Who could forget his Christmas parties in Brisbane last decade?


The Quintex group of companies collapsed


in 1989. By 1991 Skase a seasoned overseas traveller failed to return to


Australia. Bankrupt and aloof he stayed far from home and fought attempts


to force him to return for trial on the charges brought by the Australian


Securities Commission.


Whilst a resident of Majorca Skase has


developed his business ventures by creating an international company pursuing


interests in resorts. It appears that this strategy has been adopted to


carry favour with the

Spanish Government in relation to investment attraction.


Since 1994 in Spanish Courts he has fought


extradition proceedings to Australia, claiming that a life threatening


lung condition prevented him from travelling. This was challenged in the


courts by witnesses to his lifestyle in Majorca where he and his wife Pixie


are living together with step-daughter Amanda and her husband Tony Larkin.


The Spanish had until recently upheld Skase’s testimony.


In May 1998, with Senator Amanda Vanstone


leading the charge, the Australian Government cancelled Skase’s passport.


The Spanish courts moved quickly sending notice to Skase to leave Majorca


by the 23rd July 1998 due to his lack of citizenship. Of course, there


was and continues to be an appeal.


Realising that he could be extradited to


Australia since being stateless, Skase moved quickly to obtain a passport.


In August, 1998 he became a citizen of Dominica and now has a valid Dominican


passport.


Being a new West Indian citizen, Skase


appears to have all the aces up his sleeve. Australia has no jurisdiction


now to legally argue for his extradition from Spain back to his country


of birth.


His notoriety continues, with brother in


law Mr Larkin claiming Skase takes oxygen every day and is so sick he cannot


move properly. This is despite news pictures showing Skase alive and well.


We all wait for the future episodes of


the saga involving Australia’s “Most Wanted Man.”

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